Category: Langston Hughes

He basically opposes hell in this poem in a way where hes explaining the common challenges that the black community faces with themselves. Always looking down on their own figures and those around them, as well as blaming white individuals for their failures when pointing fingers at them shouldnt be their way of overcoming this…

The United States of America is a country with a lot of history and culture. Different decades have especially marked this nation and the 30s were no exception. Many transcendental events took place, for example on February 18, the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto Moreover, on May 1, 1931, the construction of…

Langston Hughes, an influential literary artist, explore[d] the lives of African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance (Mother to Son 177). Because he was black himself, Hughes could write about his first-hand experience of the tacks and splinters associated with discrimination, and provide the privileged with his perspective (Miller 432). Hughes reveals the impediments blacks faced by…

In The Black Ball by Ralph Ellison, the storys themes are struggle, equality, hope, and connection, while in Why, You Reckon? by Langston Hughes, the author uses two characters at the beginning to show peer pressure, poverty, and racism. In The Black Ball, Ellison discusses the relationship he has with his own race. For example,…

Abstract Literature is a word that had reflected an interest in the world of reality as well as imagination. In the term subaltern describes the lower social classes and the other social groups displaced to the margins of a society in social, political, or other hierarchy. It can also mean someone who has been marginalized…